An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit

David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk

AN ESSAY ON COMEDY AND THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT by George Meredith

_This Essay was first published in 'The New Quarterly Magazine' for April 1877_.

ON THE IDEA OF COMEDY AND OF THE USES OF THE COMIC SPIRIT {1}

Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic e...